Sound: Lonely This Christmas

For this task we researched and looked into different options of royalty free music for our opening sequence:

Stage 1:




 
To fit the christmas theme of our opening sequence, we figured that using christmas music would be the best way to go. So when we narrowed it down to these three options, we decided that the one we liked the most was the third clip "Deck the Halls", but when we went to put the music over the top of the sequence, the cost was far to high as we had to buy the rights to the clip from the website. Therefore we then had to choose the top one because we thought that that would be the most fitting from the remaining two. However when we asked a group of people from the target audience they said that it made the clip too cheesy and happy when the atmosphere overall was supposed to be more subdued. Then after a discussion with our teachers, we came to the conclusion that we should start sound research again.

Stage 2:





The three clips shown under the stage 2 heading are the songs we chose that were more calm and toned down to reflect the mood of the protagonist in our sequence, and were the music choice we had to choose from for our final product. We tried all three pieces of music over the top but overall we decided from feedback from our classmates and teachers that either the top or the bottom clip would be the most successful. Between the three of us we chose the bottom royalty free clip for our sequence because it seemed to provoke more sympathy for the main character, who we want our audience to empathise with, and made the video more effective and made it look more professional than the others because the timing of the notes syncs well with the length of our shots.

Annoyingly, since choosing this royalty free piece of music, it has been deleted from YouTube, so now it is unable to be viewed, but you can listen to it as the piece of music used to frame our opening title sequence in the final product.